"Do it." Steve tells her as she then types yes then tap enter on the keyboard.
The cameras beside the monitors start moving as something appears on the Main monitor... Looks like a face in the Matrix style screensaver, but her eyes are still adjusting to the light so she can't make it out just yet.
"Rogers, Steven born 1918," says a accented voice that doesn't sound like a computer would use,
the cameras are now fixated on her. "Carter, Shannon Born in 1983."
"Ok creepy." She says.
"How does it know our names?" Steve says, "Is this some sore of recording like in the horror movies?"
"That sounds too good to be a Sound board." She agreed.
"I assure you Captain I am not a recording," says the voice as the face becomes more clearer. Shannon finally recognized the face from the files she read over at the Shield Archives.
"Dr. Arim Zola?" She says.
"Correct." It says.
"He worked for Red Skull," Said Steve, "I read his file he's been dead for decades."
"Not so Captain, look around I have never been so Alive." Zola says.
"Operation Paperclip? You were recruited in that after the war, right when SHIELD was developing? You're the AI on the drive?"
"Correct to both. In 1972 I received a terminal diagnosis science couldn't save my body."
"Technology could? That can't be right?"
"And yet it did, my mind was worth saving, on 200,000 databanks you both stand in the center of my brain."
"How did you get here?"
"I was already invited, SHIELD recruited many other Scientists besides myself that were tied to the war."
"After everything that has happened! You be the last person I would have trusted! Peggy wouldn't allow that!"
"You have forgotten Captain, cut off one head two more shall take it's place."
Steve was getting angry, "Prove it."
"Accessing archive." He said as we saw plenty of images from the past 60+ years... "HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you tried to take that freedom, they resist."
"Whoopie," Shannon says sarcastically, "Some spoiler that was, I know my WWII history very well thank you very much."
"Thanks to your dear friend Gretchen Melanippe Johansen, the great niece of Gretchen Zellers?" said Zola as her face pales once her face appears on the screen then Zola's face reappears, "The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D."
"That will never happen!" She growls, "someone would have found out!"
"For 70 years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed." said Zola.
"Oh god not the Winter Soldier..." She said as they saw him on the monitor matching everything they remembered. Shannon looked at Steve as she knew he was about to lose it...
"No," spoke Steve, "Peggy and Howard would have stopped you!"
"Accidents will happen." said Zola as we saw a paperclipping appear on the monitor as Howard's face was "X"ed out... "HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security."
"Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's New World Order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your life, a zero sum!"
Steve finally lost it as he put all his anger into his punch breaking the Main monitor, disrupting the picture as it turned black, only to appear on another.
"As I was saying..."
"Wait the Purification thing you said earlier? That's what the Algorithm is for right?" Shannon asks.
"What?" Said Steve.
"Exactly, Project insight needed Insight so I wrote the algorithm for them to read."
Steve remembered something, "The Helicarriers..."
"Correct Steven even in my current state I am surprised you figured something out before I said it." Shannon looked at Steve puzzled, but Zola continues, "Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear the rest of it. I have been merely stalling you."
Her cell beeps as she sees on the screen that a missile is heading to your current location. Steve grabs her as all she saw next is darkness when the whole place collapses.
Shannon woke up as you feel someone pushing on you chest, as she saw Steve was doing CPR on you, "Great you're awake." He says with relief.
"Me too."
"We got to get out of here the place will be crawling with Strike agents."
"I never liked those guys."
"Since when?"
"One of them tried to seduce Melly, that's when she started wearing the ring."
"And how do you know their names?"
"They all had a bet whose be able to get into my pants first, Clint warned me in advance that was before you showed up years ago, I got ahead of them, thanks to Natasha helping me out with comebacks. I just repeated what she said but in a gentle way."
"Can you walk?"
Shannon moved her legs as he helps her up, "I keep forgetting you hide your shield under your jacket sometimes..."
Shannon follows Steve as they avoided all the agents crawling around. "So these helicarriers what do you know that I don't."
"Shannon I'll tell you but not here."
"Then when and where?" She asks.
It's now morning, Steve and you go to a house as he knocks on the door. You see a African American man open the door.
"Sam? We need a place to lay low for a while can we come in?" Steve asks him.
"Everyone is trying to kill us so far as we know." She says.
"Not everyone." He says, "Come on in... Wait aren't you-"
"American Dream yep that's me," She says, "and you are Sam...?"
"Wilson, Ma'am. The bathroom isn't far, there's fresh towels in there. I'll see if there's some clothes you could change into, I think my ex left something you're size."
"Thank you."
"No problem."
After she cleans up as Steve takes the bathroom next as he sees her dry her hair, once he finishes he checks on her. "Feeling any better?"
"It's been a long time since I been the damsel in distress... Yeah I'm good."
"You never talked much about Melly after New York only when we met at the Smithsonian."
"Besides recent events, it's because I didn't have anyone to talk about with."
"I don't believe that for one minute."
"Sure our friendship defied the our borders and we only seen each other every summer, but she was my only friend until the war. I haven't had a friend who knew me like that since."
Steve gives you a hug, "Well Zola only confirmed the Winter Soldier exists, what do you think now?"
"Not sure yet."
"I got breakfast ready if you guys do that sort of thing." said Sam.
"We'll be there and thank you again."
